I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra may so far be silent on the issue of trying the man who attempted to blow up an airliner over Detroit in federal civilian court, but his fellow Republican Rep. Candice Miller says that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab should be transferred to a military prison and tried in a military tribunal. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Instead, U.S. Rep. Candice Miller, R-Harrison Township, urged the Justice Department to immediately classify the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a packed Detroit-bound plane as an enemy combatant and turn him over to the military for enhanced interrogation and trial.
“The military would be able to take this cowardly terrorist and interrogate him aggressively and get as much information as possible,” Miller said Monday. “I do not believe this was a criminal act. It was a terrorist act of war.”
Robert Homant, criminal justice professor at University of Detroit Mercy, said a case can be made that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab could be handled by either military or federal prosecutors.
“Maybe he has information about sources of the explosives,” Homant said. “I would think this would be highly desirable information. Might be any number of things we’d want to learn from this individual.”
But as Spencer Ackerman pointed out in his debate with Pat Buchanan — who was openly advocating torturing Abdulmutallab — on MSNBC this morning, there is nothing to indicate that he is not cooperating fully under routine interrogation techniques.
Do they think that if he’s not under military control, he’s not being interrogated? The FBI has been interrogating him from the moment he was arrested and all indications are that he has been cooperative and has already revealed his connections to Al Qaeda, where he got the bombmaking materials and so forth.
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